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[CleverCowboy]

Originally Posted by Aragorn97

Furthermore, I listened to all these albums again and I have to say that Blonde is better than what I remembered.

Right? There are a number of very good songs on it. However, I rank it at the bottom of her albums. The whole blond hair gimmick was a bad idea, and putting the song Blonde first was even worse. I don't like the song, and I don't like the video, so I don't listen to it. I go straight to K.O. and start there.

I think if she did a few things different with the album, it had the potential of being a good comeback album.

[Aragorn97]

Originally Posted by CleverCowboy

I think if she did a few things different with the album, it had the potential of being a good comeback album.

I don't know. I agree about its "hidden" potential, but I don't know if it could have been good for a comeback. Did she do anything different for its promotion a part from her DALS appearance?

[Silencio]

Originally Posted by CleverCowboy

I think if she did a few things different with the album, it had the potential of being a good comeback album.

Originally Posted by Aragorn97

I agree about its "hidden" potential, but I don't know if it could have been good for a comeback. Did she do anything different for its promotion a part from her DALS appearance?

Let's not kid ourselves. The "Blonde" album was hopeless (as well as "Psychedelices"). The best thing Alizée could do for its promotion was to kick Pascal Obispo's ass, erase all songs (except maybe "Charles Est Stone") and hire another composer.

[CleverCowboy]

Originally Posted by Aragorn97

I don't know. I agree about its "hidden" potential, but I don't know if it could have been good for a comeback. Did she do anything different for its promotion a part from her DALS appearance?

Not near enough. Blonde could have been a good way to reconnect with her age group, especially after UEDS and 5, which was more mature.

I'm just wondering how many of her worldwide fans wishing she would do another album didn't buy Blonde?

[Fall]

Originally Posted by Silencio

Let's not kid ourselves. The "Blonde" album was hopeless (as well as "Psychedelices"). The best thing Alizée could do for its promotion was to kick Pascal Obispo's ass, erase all songs (except maybe "Charles Est Stone") and hire another composer.

I disagree completely. Psychédélices is my favorite album by far. It's composed of such a variety of colorful sounds, and has pound for pound more Alizée jams than any other album. Whether you're going to the gym, running, or sitting in traffic, Psychédélices is second to none. The drums on PLP, the beat of Fifty Sixty, the attitude of Mademoiselle Juliette, and the playfulness of Lilly Town... The other albums can't beat that.

Charles Est Stone is an earache, and I never listen past the first few seconds so I can skip it.

I enjoy the rest of Blonde though.

[Aragorn97]

Originally Posted by CleverCowboy

I'm just wondering how many of her worldwide fans wishing she would do another album didn't buy Blonde?

Yeah . .

Edit:

Originally Posted by Fall

I disagree completely. Psychédélices is my favorite album by far. It's composed of such a variety of colorful sounds

"Colorful" is probably the best word to describe this album. Really spot on

[Scruffydog777]

We all have different tastes in music though we are all Alizee fans. To me, Blonde had the best chance of becoming an album. I really enjoy Alcaline and K.O.. They are on my regular play list. It really helps out a song to have a good video or performance with it. The story told in Alcaline is a simple one and it could have made for a great video which wouldn't have taken much money to produce.

One of the big mistakes in the promotion of Blonde was she often looked mediocre on stage, while great off stage.

Here is one outfit from the Blonde 'era'.

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There's only one person who could pick out an outfit that bad. Now I wont name names, but her initials are Alizee Lyonnet. You can't blame Pascal for that. The other outfits she wore on stage were not as bad, but certainly they would fall into the lame category imo.

Another big mistake made was Blonde was the fact they only made one video. I mentioned she's competing with the big boys. She's in the major leagues, trying to make it. You don't have that strong a voice to carry the day. If you can't produce more than one video to help you out considering how beautiful and what a great dancer you are, assets you should take advantage of, you have little hope of success, especially if choose the wrong song to make that one video which she did and you choose poor outfits to wear during the promotion.

Pascal Obispo was in no way responsible for the failure of this album. Who ever thought the Blonde video would sell this album, who ever thought those outfits she wore during the promotion were a good idea, should never be allowed to direct the production of an album again and I'm sure it wasn't Pascal.

Edit:

For some reason, I had a very strong urge to watch this video in the shortened version I prefer, right after I made this post.

https://youtu.be/PI1-37rXM74?t=13

[Silencio]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

Pascal Obispo was in no way responsible for the failure of this album. Who ever thought the Blonde video would sell this album, who ever thought those outfits she wore during the promotion were a good idea, should never be allowed to direct the production of an album again and I'm sure it wasn't Pascal.

She was selling a musical album and not an outfit, video, dancing or anything else. How can you hope to sell something when you have nothing to sell? You can fool fans by pretty face or by promotion once, as it was with "Psychédélices", but you cannot do it twice. The main thing they overlooked, in my opinion, was the quality of the music material, and the person responsible for that was Pascal Obispo. Since this album has led the singer Alizée to a dormant state eventually, Pascal Obispo on one side and Chris Marques on the other are the ones who are to blame for the current state of things.

[Mr Coucou]

I saw a comment like this on youtube:

Alizee post-Mylene:

1. boring songs
2. plain hair
3. second-rate clothing
4. tattoos

People on the forum fall into one of two camps:

1) People who say the boring songs are the problem.
2) People who say that the plain hair and the second-rate clothing are the problem.

I think the boring songs are the main problem (but the plain hair and the second-rate clothing certainly don't help matters.)

[Aragorn97]

Originally Posted by Mr Coucou

I saw a comment like this on youtube:



People on the forum fall into one of two camps:

1) People who say the boring songs are the problem.
2) People who say that the plain hair and the second-rate clothing are the problem.

I think the boring songs are the main problem (but the plain hair and the second-rate clothing certainly don't help matters.)

Yeah, first of all she is a singer, so we can discuss everything, but her songs are the raw material.

Anyway I would add:
3) promotion problems and mistakes

I think Psychédélices and 5 are high quality products, so in my opinion the problem is elsewhere. I would say the promotion of the albums. Or just the fact that people don't like Alizée the singer and they want Alizée the performer. Many artists are given negative feedback after a change in their styles, not because they aren't good but because people were used to that image.

If you talk about Ueds, I think it was a predictable failure. Those songs are too unusual, most people are not used to that kind of sound. But, in my opinion, it is the most sincere album of Alizée, speaking of music style. So I'm fine with it, even though it is the album that I like the least.

Blonde has all three problems lol